Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Born: November 5, 1850
Died: October 30, 1919 (aged 68)
Bio: Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude", which contains the lines, "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone".
Known for:
- Poems of Passion (1883)
- Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Maurine and Other Poems (1882)
- Poems of pleasure.. (1888)
- Poems of Power (1901)
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